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November 16th, 2010

Would you be willing to put all your possessions in storage, except your laptop, a few clothes and your dog, and say adiós to the idea of having a home? That's just what Michael Powell and Juergen Horn have done....

Wafaa Bilal, a professor of photography at New York University, plans to have a camera surgically implanted in the back of his head. When his project his completed, it will stream images to museum visitors:
For one y...

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Afrotech Forums user Dr. West made a functional touchpad out of a piece of paper with graphite rubbed on it:
There isn't much to explain here. It just uses pencil graphite on paper as a kind...

French designer Pierre Stephane Dumas has created a set of inflatable tents that he hopes will change the way that people go camping:
But they are far from the traditional camping trip - decked out with wardrobes, she...

For several months after the US entry into World War II, Americans feared air raids or even invasions of the continental United States by Germany and Japan. An article in the March 2, 1942 issue of Life mag...

A replica of the "Semelle" window
The Michelin Man aka Bibendum was featured in three stained glass windows when the Michelin tire company set up business in its Fulham Road location in London in 1911. However the beaut...

You could sharpen your own pencils, but who would want to go to all the effort? Send them to David Rees of Artisanal Pencil Sharpening, and he'll whittle them to perfection and return them to you with the shavings and a...

Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire owner of Virgin Atlantic Air, lost a bet to Tony Fernandes, the owner of Air Asia. Consequently, he must serve as a flight attendant on an Air Asia international flight:
Bra...

This unknown cosplayer is dressed as a hat worn by Jayne Cobb, a character on the TV show Firefly.
Oh, He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
O...

This excellent image captured by NASA shows astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing out of a window on the International Space Station. It was taken last September. Dyson, a chemist, went into orbit on April 2, 2010...

Software engineer Skytee made a steampunk-style bandwidth meter. He (she?) calls it the TorrentMeter:
I got a 1908 voltmeter in a brass housing, about 20cm (8in) in diameter. It had a resistor made from a wire wi...

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Do you ever feel like you are just a cog in a machine? This Indian ad for a pain reliever illustrates that feeling, as humans are turned into industrial machines and vehicles. -via the Presurfermachin...

The website Can You Draw the Internet? wants your imagination. They recruited a bunch of children to illustrate the idea of the internet. And they invited a bunch of graphic designers and advertising people to do the...